Method of ornamenting fabrics



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E. I. GOLDING METHOD OF ORNAMENTING FABRICS Filed Nov. 13 1922 I ATTORNEY Patented Nov. 18, 1924.

UNITED STATES EDWIN 'I. GDLDING, OF NEW YORK, N. Y.

METEHG'D 0]? QRNAMENTING FABRICS.

Application filed November 13, 1922. Serialjflo. 600,652. r

T 0 all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, EDWIN I. GOLIBING, a

citizen of the United States, residing at 420 Riverside Drive, in thecity, county, and State of New York, have made certain new and usefulImprovements in Methods of Urnamenting Fabrics, of which the followingis a specification.

This invention relates to a method for ornamenting the surface offabrics and the like, and coordinately involves a method for laying outa design to be employed in such ornamentation.

Fabrics to be employed for dress goods frequently have surfaceornamentation applied thereto, as this is found to add an element ofattractiveness to fabrics and also to the garment made therefrom. Suchornamentation is generally produced by passing the fabric through amachine having a printing roller upon which is cut the desired or apredetermined design to be reproduced or printed upon the fabrics.

Such character of fabric ornamentation produced by me involves (a) themethod I employ to layout a desired or predetermined design and b) themethod I employ to produce such design upon the printing roller andcoordinately involves 0) the pro duction of a design upon a fabric, theeffect of which is enhanced by the manner in which the design iscontra-distinguished from the background.

Designs are generally laid out along a preconceived idea of what isbelieved will prove to be effective. Not only does this necessitate thepreconception, of a definite predetermined design but also involves theactual production of this design on a surface. As anyone skilled in theart is aware, the number of such preconceptions which a person, evenhighly talented, can originate is limited. and. furthermore suchpreconceived designs when actually laid out are frequently found not tomeasure up to expectations or to be otherwise unsatisfactory. For thesereasons the laying out of acceptable designs is not only expensive butof rapidly increasing difficulty with the illcrease of designs sought.

For the purpose of overcoming these objections I have devised a methodof laying out designs which is, to a great extent mechanical andnecessitates a minimum of preconceptive efiort and this phase of myinvention involves the employment of a surface alreadyprepared withcontrasting portions, one of which forms a background so that byproducing changes in the relationship of the two, such relationship canbe made to assume an infinite number of variations, eachof which will bea different design.

Another phase of invention involves the manner in which I treat theprint roller so as to produce the variations in the surface thereof, asa result of which the printing surface is produced.

The production of a design upon any surface involves broadly theproduction of a contrast in portions of the surface and as will beappreciated by those skilled in the art, Variation merelyin thecharacter of the background. and foreground, without any vvariation ofthe two as to dimensional or positional relationship, gives enhancedeffects and by another phase of invention, I produce such relationshipin character of the two that the effect of the design produced isheightened.

For the attainment of the objects referred to and for gaining such otherbenefits and advantages that will appear or be pointed out below I havedevised one manner of employing my invention which is illustrated thedrawings wherein- The figure shows the manner of laying out a design inaccordance with my invention.

In the laying out of designs, I employ a surface which is alreadyprepared with what I term a foreground and. a background. This Iaccomplish for instance in the specific method herein disclosed by me,by employing a sheet having a surface of one color such as white, andthen causing spaced portions of said surface to be of a contrastingcolor such as blaclr. In the illustrated form, the surface 10 is whiteand the portions of contrasting color are the dots 11. These dots arepreferably spaced a substantial distance apart and are arrangedsymmetrically of the surface in all directions. They are also preferablyspaced equally in all directions. Of course it will be understood thatthe paper can be prepared in advance with these dots thereon.

While I have shown these portions 11 as circular dots, it will beunderstood of course, that they may assume any dimension or shape. Itwill also be understood that while I find it of advantage for my purposegeniii orally to have these dots equally spaced and symmetricallyarranged in all directions, this is not essential and in fact it may befound of advantage to have the arrangement otherwise, to meet particularsituations.

This prepared surface in fact becomes one having contrasting portionsone of which forms a background and in the practice of my invention Ichange the dimensional relationship of the two.

This I accomplish by obliterating part of one of the contrastingportions. In the manner of forming the design illustrated in thedrawings where the surface generally is white the dots are black Iaccomplish this by painting over with white a certain of the black dots:along predetermined lines as clearly shown at 13 and 14. By followingthe method shown on the right of the drawing, the white surface formsthe design with the black dots as the background and on the left theopposite result is reached.

By obliterating dots symmetrically along lines on opposite sides of themedian longitudinal and transverse lines, very effective and pleasingdesigns are quickly attained and it is apparent that the designs whichcan so be obtained are limitless in number and that designs of acomplicated character can be laid out even by one not expert in the art.

The design thus laid out and found acceptable is then formed upon aprinting roller by means of dots arranged substantially as in the designalready laid out. This manner of forming a design upon a printingsurface has decided advantages which will be obvious to any one skilledin the art.

In employing a printing surface such as described, for the production ofa design upon a surface, a design will be formed which. in all respectscorresponds tothat which was orignally laid out and which is shown inthe drawing. In other words, the design. formed upon a fabric by meansof the contrast between the surface of the fabric and the dots groupedand outlined as shown in the drawing will prove extremely effective.Furthermore, it will be obvious that the forming of a design by theapplication of ink at a number of spaced points rather than by solidprintingpossesses decided advantages.

Having thus described my invention and illustrated its use, what I claimas new and desire to secure by Letters Patent is l. The method of layingout designs which includes the employment of surfaces made up-ofcontrasting portions, all the surfaces being identical, and obliteratingsome of the contrasted surface; the remainder of said surface outliningthe de sign.

2. The method of laying out designs which includes the employment ofsurfaces made of contrasted portions of markings all of the surfacesbeing identical, obliterating portions of the surface markings andleaving designs outlined of surfaces of said first mentioned character.

3. The method of laying out designs whiclrincludes the employment ofsurfaces each having dots similarly arranged thereon to form thebackground and eliminating predetermined dots to cause remaining dots toassume a definite outline.

4. The method of producing a design upon a. printing roller whichincludes the step of outlining the design by spaced portions ofcontrasted surfaces including uniformly and symmetrically arranged dots.

5. A method of forming designs upon a surface consisting in providingsaid surface with a background of symmetrically arranged identicalmarks, and obliterating certain of said marks to form the design.

6. A method of forming designs upon a surface consisting in providingsaid surface with a background of symmetrically arranged lateral andlongitudinal parallel rows of marks, and obliterating certain of saidmarks to form the design. I

7. An article of manufacture consisting of material having an exposedsurface, said surface being provided with a plurality of symmetricallyarranged identical marks whereby designs may be formed by obliteratingcertain. of said marks.

8. An article of manufacture consisting of material having an exposedsurface, said surface being provided with a plurality of symmetricallyarranged lateral and longitudinal parallel rows of marks whereby designsmay be formed by obliterating certain. of said marks.

In testimony whereof I havehereunto signed my name.

EDWIN 1, GOLDING.

